A Technology Seminar on Information Kiosk based applications was organized on 7th May 2003 at NIC Secretariat Centre, Orissa for senior officers of different departments. Sri S. K. Panda, State Informatics Officer, NIC Orissa State Unit and a team from NIC, Tamilnadu presented different possibilities of the KIOSK based technology and how the government can reach the citizens through Kiosks starting from Secretariat to Block level. It was pointed out that 29 Model Taluks at Tamilnadu have Kiosk Based Systems where people can browse information regarding different schemes, can view and receive printouts of Birth & Death certificates, land ownership details, Record of Rights, Land Guideline value, Particulars of a particular land, Old age pension particulars etc. Sri S. Srinivasan, I.A.S, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, Information Technology department announced on the occasion that, Orissa State Secretariat is going to install an information Kiosk very soon at a central place of Secretariat so that officials of Orissa State Secretariat can able to know the up-to-date status of their different applications ( Quarter allotment, Pay Status, Pay roll, trainings etc. ) or any general information like telephone directory, personal profile etc. The software so developed was demonstrated by the NIC team.